Mgr. Antonius Subianto Bunjamin,

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(born 14 February 1968) is a Roman Catholic bishop and President of the Bishops' Conference of Indonesia. Ordained to the priesthood in 1996, Bunjamin was named bishop of the

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, Indonesia in 2014 succeeding

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. The Vatican appointed Bunjamin as

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to the

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in 2017, and to the

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in 2019.

Background

Bunjamin was born on 14 February 1968 in

Bandung Bandung ( su, ᮘᮔ᮪ᮓᮥᮀ, Bandung, ; ) is the capital city of the Indonesian province of West Java. It has a population of 2,452,943 within its city limits according to the official estimates as at mid 2021, making it the fourth most ...

, West Java. When he was a child, he was nicknamed ''beke'', a Sundanese word which means short, because compared to his friends, Bunyamin was short. He grew up in the Parish of Santa Odilia, Cicadas.

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